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# Awesome Decentralized Web [](https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome)
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A curated list about the decentralized web technologies.
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### Blockchain infrastructure
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* [Blockstack](https://blockstack.org/) - a platform for application development with built in decentralized DNS.
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* [Ethereum](https://ethereum.org/) - "a distributed answer to HTTP POST" - it's a blockcahin-based platform for decentralized app development.
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* [Namecoin](https://namecoin.info/) - a replacement for the existing domain name system that registers identities on a blockchain, rather than a centralized DNS authority.
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* [Zcash](https://z.cash/) - a cryptocurrency built for total privacy. Zcash encrypts transactions so that they can be validated while still private.
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* [Backfeed](http://backfeed.cc/) - a technology to enable decentralized and user-owned governance and reputation management for a community.
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* [Curated list of Blockchain and Crytocurrency Resources in general](https://github.com/McFrankline/Blockchain-stuff)
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* [OpenTimeStamps](https://opentimestamps.org/) - OpenTimestamps aims to be a standard format for blockchain timestamping.
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### Communication
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* [BitMessage](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitmessage) - anonymous encrypted message broadcasting.
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* [Matrix](https://matrix.org/) - an open standard for decentralised persistent communication over IP. Matrix wants to connect together all the various communication services and make them interoperate.
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* [Solid](https://solid.mit.edu/) - a proposed set of conventions and tools for building decentralized social applications based on Linked Data principles.
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* [LevelNews](https://levelnews.org/) - a leftist news aggregator designed for an open web, and dedicated to journalism without censorship.
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* [Interledger](https://interledger.org/) - it interconnects disparate cryptocurrencies and financial systems.
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* [Ricochet](https://ricochet.im/) - completely anonymous and potentially metadata-free chat
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### Databases
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* [BigchainDB](https://www.bigchaindb.com/) - a scalable database that layers blockchain technology over decentralized data.
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* [IPDB](https://ipdb.foundation/) - a federated database network built on BigchainDB and IPFS. It is maintained by a network of caretakers around the world, at least half of which are nonprofits.
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### Data Storage and Sharing
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* [BitTorrent](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent) - Protocol for distributed file sharing
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* [WebRTC](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebRTC) - W3C drafted standard for browser-to-browser data transfer.
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* [WebTorrent](https://webtorrent.io/) - an in-browser torrenting that works without requiring users to install anything extra.
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* [DAT Project](http://dat-data.com/) - a torrent-based public data storage, versioning, and sharing aimed at scientists, or anyone else with data.
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* [IPFS](https://ipfs.io/) - or InterPlanetary File System, is a distributed file storage system that aims to replace HTTP.
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* [Tahoe-LAFS](https://www.tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs) - a private, encrypted file storage system that decentralizes data across multiple servers.
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* [CacheP2P](http://www.cachep2p.com/) - a distributed caching platform.
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* [Wikipediap2p](https://www.wikipediap2p.org/) - a p2p version of wikipedia.
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* [Cryptosphere](https://cryptosphere.io/) - an open-source P2P web application platform for decentralized, privacy-preserving software.
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* [Filecoin](http://filecoin.io/) - Filecoin is a data storage network and electronic currency based on Bitcoin.
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* [OnionShare](https://onionshare.org/) - hosts the selected files as a hidden service on the user's computer.
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* [PasteDat](https://github.com/taravancil/paste-dat )A peer-to-peer gist alternative with Dat.
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### Decentralized web
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* [ZeroNet](https://zeronet.io/) - a peer-to-peer web built on the Bitcoin blockchain for addressing, and identity and Namecoin for .bit domains.
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* [Freenet](https://freenetproject.org/)- a network aimed at activists and people living in repressive regimes. It uses a web of trust in high security mode, which allows users on the network to be effectively undetectable.
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* [MaidSafe](http://maidsafe.net/) - a soon-to-be-released decentralized internet and app infrastructure which rewards users for participating in the network.
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* [Samizdat](http://samizdat.childrenofmay.org/) - Samizdat is a platform for the self-hosted, peer-to-peer, cryptographically-secured internet.
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* [I2P](https://geti2p.net/) - Anonymous network with hidden services.
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* [Tor](https://www.torproject.org/) - Anonymous network proxy.
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### Marketplaces
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* [OpenBazaar](https://openbazaar.org/) - Marketplace, with store fronts and moderators.
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### Microblogging
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* [mastodon](https://mastodon.social) - Decentralized alternative to twitter, with servers federation.
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* [trsst](http://www.trsst.com/) - looks and feels like twitter but encrypted and anonymized and decentralized and only you hold the keys.
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* [Tahrir](http://tahrirproject.org/) - looks and feels like twitter but encrypted and anonymized and decentralized and only you hold the keys.
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* [Twister](http://twister.net.co/) - a fully decentralized P2P microblogging platform leveraging the free software implementations of Bitcoin and BitTorrent protocols.
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### Misc
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* [Mediachain](http://www.mediachain.io/) - a media library built on IPFS that makes it easy to publish, track, and discover creative work.
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* [IPWB](https://github.com/oduwsdl/ipwb) - an interplanetary wayback machine.
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* [Onename](https://onename.com/) - a global database for people, companies, websites and more.
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* [StrongLink](https://github.com/btrask/stronglink) - a searchable, syncable, content-addressable notetaking system
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* [instant.io](https://instant.io/) - Streaming file transfer over WebTorrent.
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* [bitnation.co](https://bitnation.co) - the World’s First Virtual Nation – A Blockchain Jurisdiction.
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* [magic-wormhole](https://github.com/warner/magic-wormhole) - Get things from one computer to another, safely.
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* [ferment](https://github.com/mmckegg/ferment) - Peer-to-peer audio publishing and streaming application.
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* [beaker](https://beakerbrowser.com/) - Beaker is a Peer-to-Peer Web Browser, made for users to run applications independently of hosts.
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* [git-ssb](https://github.com/clehner/git-ssb) - Decentralized git repo hosting and issue tracking on secure-scuttlebutt.
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## Credits:
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- [Decentralized Web Summit](http://www.decentralizedweb.net/)
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- [Mouse Reeve](https://blog.mousereeve.com/technologies-of-the-decentralized-web-summit/)
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## License
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[](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)
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